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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You just deal with it.

I rely heavily on hairstyle and clothes to identify people and even then I generally wait for them to greet me first.

Hair cuts are the worst. One time a friend with curly hair had her hair in top bun and I couldn’t recognize her[/quote]

Minor changes throw me off. I never get it when one actor is playing identical twins but with different hair styles.  Like the insurance product commercial with the actor playing her sister, had no idea it was the same actor or that the characters were meant to be twins.

The odd thing is, I am very aware about how people can have small similar attributes.  I see the pieces but not the whole.  Like those kid books with different pages of eyes, lips, noses to mix up.  I can see my sibling friends have the same checkbones, that cousins have the same thin upper lip, or my brother's jaw is like Kurt Russell in a specific movie. [/quote]

Ha! I don’t think I have face blindness, but I rely heavily on context, hair color, height, etc. So your first paragraph describes me watching Orphan Black where the same actress plays several clones. DH would say “that’s another clone,” and I’d be like— “but her hair is blonde. Are you sure?” Same actress.

Also, when I was younger, I didn’t understand that people meant when they said siblings looked alike unless they had the same exact hair and same eye color. People meant facial features, but I couldn’t understand how they could tell.

That said, I do recognize friends and family just fine. If I saw a famous actor on the street, I’d have no idea who it was. [/quote]

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